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From the Debain Configuration Post Install Thread for convenience:
sndconfig
aumix
discover
cupsys cupsys-bsd
icewm icewm-themes iceme openbox
locales localepurge deborphan debfoster
ksnapshot xchat xzgv numlockx artwiz-cursor memstat xfe vim
openoffice.org openoffice.org-help-es openoffice.org-l10n-es myspell-es

Thanks for the above post.

General Comments
As long as it is a .deb package please feel free to list it here. If it is in a special repository include it as well. If you used alien to make the package, include all version numbers for convenience.

Vijay

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Did you know that apt-build can rebuild, and optimize, your Debian world ala FreeBSD or even Gentoo?

http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build.html

The more I use Debian, the more amazing it gets.

Just thought you'd all like to know, if you didn't already.

Steve

Great post/info. Thanks for sharing.

Vijay

apt-listbugs

Thank you. I apt-get installed kino on a Libranet system some time ago. It hosed the xserver. Easy enough to fix but I was told to really check the bugs of software I wanted to install. I asked how they checked the bugs. No answer so I went to the web and started reading all the bug reports-not fun.

I installed apt-listbugs and tried to run it without much luck. Oh well I'll read the manual later. ;-)

But when I apt-get installed software, it automatically listed the packages that contained bugs. Very cool.

Gotta love Debian.

Thanks again.

Steve

I am having sever problems with Ads on Yahoo Groups. Someone suggested that privoxy is very effective for this.

Here is the home page for Privoxy:
http://www.privoxy.org/

I just checked and Voila !!! There exists a debian package as well for privoxy so:
#apt-get install privoxy

Warm Regards,

Vijay

Yeah man, apt-listbugs is one of the coolest packages I have installed in the last 6 months. And it is really handy specially if you are running unstable, where things tend to break from time to time.
As you said, you do an "apt-get install" or "apt-get upgrade" then apt-listbugs automatically runs and retrieves the bug reports (if any) for the packages in question .

Tor for Internet Security:

http://tor.eff.org/

Read Download Instructions Carefully here:
http://tor.eff.org/download.html

I just happened to go to www.archive.org
Here they have several E-Books, Free Movies/Aduio Files etc., for downloading for all. It is a growing project and all are encouraged to visit this site. All these use several different formats and quite a few of these may be expected to have a Debian Package.

Here is one package that is of great interest for E-Books:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/djview

Vijay

For Jigsaw Puzzle lovers:

xjig

http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/xjig

A nice (but pretty useless) program that I just installed is grandfatherclock. http://packages.debian.org/testing/s...andfatherclock
Grandfatherclock is run as a cronjob. There's no GUI frontend for setting up this program, so it requires a bit of extra tweaking. There's an example script for running granfatherclock as a cronjob in /usr/share/doc/grandfatherclock/examples but I just changed the /etc/cron.hourly line in /etc/crontab to begin with 00 and then added a simple executable shell script for grandfatherclock to /etc/cron.hourly , and now I get to hear the clock toll every hour on the hour.

Some additional help:
-- the config file is /etc/grandfatherclockrc
-- the sound files that come with the program are in /usr/share/grandfatherclock
-- if you prefer to use the example script, just copy it to /etc/cron.d and edit it to your liking (no need to make it executable). Notice that the example script plays quarterly chimes in addition to hourly tolls. If you wish to get rid of these quarterly chimes, edit the script to look like this: EDIT:
I've noticed that grandfatherclock doesn't play well together with other sound programs playing in the background (the tolls break and that sounds horrible). Too bad, but it's just a bit too much trouble to turn granfatherclock off by editing /etc/crontab every time before playing music or videos or games. If there was an easy GUI switch for turning grandfatherclock (or crontab) on/off, this wouldn't be any problem.

msttcorefonts

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